These photos are of Ealing Broadway from Britain in Old Photographs and are compared with my photos taken this year. This first one was taken in 1938 and shows The Feathers pub, a no. 97 bus to Brentford and the…
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Here’s a few more photograph comparisons of Ealing, West London, this time of Northfields Avenue. Again the old photos are from Britain in Old Photographs and the new ones I took a few weeks ago. These all show the junction…
I’ve taken a few more photos for comparison, again using the Britain in Old Photographs book, and I expect to post a few more over the weeks as I improve my cropping speed. These two photos above are of High…
A friend drew my attention to this Hovis ad on YouTube, which depicts the most iconic moments in British history over the last 122 years, all compacted into a 122 second-long sequence. I really enjoyed it and like Hovis as…
I’m afraid I’m going to indulge myself in a little nostalgic local history now. I live in Ealing, now a suburb of greater London, but previously a small town in its own right. These images are from a book of…
As today is Remembrance Sunday, only two days before the 90th anniversary of the end First World War, I thought I’d write a bit about The Wipers Times trench magazine. I happen to have a copy of the edition published in 1918.
‘The Supersizers go…1970s’ was great fun and made a big change from the previous programmes which have mostly dealt with pretty tasteless, meaty, unhealthy food. Quite the opposite was the problem this week as Giles and Sue conclude that the…
Today I visited the Imperial War Museum London, where I looked around most of the exhibits but I specifically looked through the Victoria Cross and George Cross gallery, which is a small section of the museum that is often missed…